Category: Biography

  • Barack Obama: The Road from Moneygall Brandon Books June 2010 288 pages ISBN: 9780863224065 (hb); 9780863224133 (pb) Steve MacDonogh (1949-2010), Editorial Director A unique exploration of the president’s Irish ancestral origins. In his presidential election acceptance speech, Barack Obama evoked a story of great change in America, and an America made up of many strands.…

  • Freedom’s Child: The Life of a Confederate General’s Black Daughter Algonquin Books 1998 288 pages ISBN: 9781565121867 Carrie Allen McCray (1913-2008) When Carrie Allen McCray was a child, she was afraid to ask about the framed photograph of a white man on her mother’s dresser. Years later she learned that he was her grandfather, a…

  • Tale of a ‘Seditionist’–The Lawrence Dennis Story AntiWar.com 2000-04-29 Justin Raimondo War infects and weakens our republican form of government, spreads social and political diseases throughout the body politic—but is, as Randolph Bourne put it, “the health of the State.” The State, in wartime, is glorified and empowered: the militarization of society means that all…

  • Johnny Otis, ‘Godfather of Rhythm and Blues,’ Dies at 90 New York Times 2012-01-19 Ihsan Taylor Johnny Otis, the musician, bandleader, songwriter, impresario, disc jockey and talent scout often called “the godfather of rhythm and blues,” died on Tuesday at his home in Altadena, Calif. He was 90. His death was confirmed by his manager,…

  • Jean Toomer: Fugitive American Literature Volume 47, Number 1 (March, 1975) page 84-96 Charles Scruggs, Professor of English University of Arizona As a young boy, Jean Toomer attended a dinner party during which someone asked his famous grandfather, P. B. S. Pinchback, if he indeed had “colored” blood. The light-skinned former lieutenant governor of Louisiana…

  • Oscar James Dunn: A Case Study in Race & Politics in Reconstruction Louisiana University of New Orleans December 2011 296 pages Brian Mitchell A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of New Orleans in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Urban Studies The study of…

  • Glimpse of a Visionary: Jeffrey Campbell ’33 St. Lawrence University Magazine Winter 2006 Steve Peraza ’06 Jeffrey Campbell ’33 is generally thought of as St. Lawrence’s first African-American graduate. In a University Fellowship paper, Steve Peraza ’06, a history and sociology double major from New York City, contends that Campbell deserves to be recognized on…

  • “The Afro-Latin@ Reader” focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean.

  • Fifty years after Frantz Fanon: beyond diversity Advances in Psychiatric Treatment Volume 18, Number 1 (January 2012) pages 25-31 DOI: 10.1192/apt.bp.110.008847 Adedapo Sikuade Frantz Fanon (1925–1961), a West Indian of mixed race, was a French colonial psychiatrist trained in Lyon, France, who worked mainly in colonial North Africa between 1953 and 1957. He was one…

  • Mix Up, Mix Up: Reviewing Bob Marley as the Militant Mulatto University of Miami Fall 2011 ENG 106 R4/S4 Rachel Panton, Lecturer of English In lieu of what would have been Bob Marley’s 66th birthday, we will explore the impact of Rastafari on the life and music of Marley, and on other contemporary Roots Reggae…